New International African American Museum opens at prominent site of the slave trade

The new International African American Museum , which opened last month in Charleston South Carolina, stands at a location that is itself drenched in history.

The museum is on Gadsden’s Wharf, where ships carrying enslaved people from Africa arrived to bring them into bondage in America. Gadsden’s Wharf was one of the nation’s largest trans-Atlantic slave ports, says Tonya Matthews, president of the museum.